The brilliance of our human capacity to create something out of nothing is spellbinding. You are already participating in such a feat, and you probably don’t even know it. This video opened my eyes to the re-CAPTCHA project, and its mission,
“Stop spam, read books.”
You know CAPTCHA: those squiggly passwords you have to retype in the comment section of my blog and millions like it.
When you type that second word, you’re actually helping to digitize a word that a computer scanner couldn’t read on its own. Essentially, your using the power of CAPTCHA (not letting computer spammers recognize a password) to help a computer recognize a word it is attempting to legitimately scan, but can’t read, in a printed story. You are playing an integral role in digitize the world’s library…one word at a time.
Talking about doing something amazing by simply executing one of the most banal activities you can imagine.
Here’s a cool example: Currently, 400,000,000 unsuspecting online users have helped digitize the entire New York Times library (with printed editions starting in 1851 to 1980) as they used re-CAPTCHA. This project, with the help of six percent of the world through their everyday use of re-Captcha, will be finished in less than a year.
How can you multiply the minute efforts of the masses to make a world of difference? Leave me a comment, and digitize a word.
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Document digitization is a time and money consuming procedure, yet it is unavoidable in today’s digital age. To speed up digitalization and save resources, stakeholders must develop a clear strategy and focus on digitization activities professionally, avoiding the current situation of “sand goes”, “strongly everyone does”.
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